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It's not only the software developer side, but also the business side that doesn't take it seriously. Businesses currently see only the upside in aggregating ever-larger pools of crosslinked data. Schneier's article here is pointing out the downside: collecting big centralized pools of data is an accident waiting to happen, a giant pile of toxic waste stored in rusty drums, which businesses are happily piling more waste onto as fast as they can.

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More than that but there's no regulatory push (outside of maybe healthcare?) to require stringent handling of peoples data. If anything the opposite is true where the government wants people to build a specific backdoor for them.

This is certainly one of the reasons I've become more aware recently of the amount of data certain companies have on me. Data breaches have the potential to be catastrophic and very few people are looking out for my best interests.

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